Second Lead Syndrome: A Second Chance Chapter 193 - Confession part 2 - Novel Cool

Second Lead Syndrome: A Second Chance Chapter 193 - Confession part 2

When they reached the top, Lena spotted their table perfectly set up. The deck was decorated with hanging lights.

Kris pulled the chair for Lena. He walked to the opposite side and sat down. One of the workers poured some wine for them as their food came out.

Lena was awed at the dishes that were cooked. Cooking fish was not one of her specialty in cooking.

Kris scooped a large portion of the fish for Lena. She smiled thankfully at him. Kris was expecting her to do the same thing back but she already dived into her food.

It was not after she ate a few bites that she then picked up a shrimp with her chopsticks and put it for Kris to eat. He moves his head up to the middle of the table and took her offer, right off her own eating utensil.

"Tell me Kris, is your mind this awesome?"

"I feel that if I answer that, it would not be romantic anymore." Kris replied as he continued to eat.

"Then a day we have our first argument, I will ask again."

Kris grinned. "Half was my own but the other half was from... life skills."

Life skills... Lena wondered what school he went attended to learn such amazing life skills. At that thought, Lena looked at Kris and wondered.

"Kris... did you go to school?"

Kris glanced up to meet Lena's eyes. "Are you doubting my completion of several degrees from some of the most prestigious universities in the world?"

Lena gulped. She put up her hands and waved it as in no. "No, no. I was just thinking... you were sick at a young age and then you developed your current sickness and spent a lot of your life recovering... I think."

Lena does not entirely know Kris' full story yet. When he told her, there were many missing years and details that Lena does not know. She knew that once he was ready, he will tell her someday. She has secrets of her own too.

"My degrees are fake." Kris smiled and took a sip from his glass. "When my grandfather... stole me, I only got up to an education of... high school I would say."

He put his glass down and stared at Lena. "Why? Are you going to back out now that your boyfriend does not have a high education?"

"No way! A person's success if not always correlated with his or her education. Look at me! I completed a real degree from a good university, and you are running a multi-billion company while I am sitting at my desk drawing and signing papers." Lena laughed. "I would not care if you were her penniless man or a divorcee. I love you now, your past and your future."

Kris softened his eyes at the woman babbling in front of him. He smiled and continued to eat. "How did you know I was a divorcee?"

Lena dropped the food she had picked up with her chopsticks. "A WHAT!" Lena just made a joke, she was not really expecting it to be true. She just stared at Kris with widened eyes.

"Didn't you say you would not care?" Kris continued to casually eat.

Lena could not get a word out of her mouth. "I still can be angry. You are really not joking with me right?"

"No."

Lena screamed and threw her chopsticks at Kris. Instead of dodging it, he just let it hit him. He was wondering when he was going to tell her, but he guessed that since she brought the topic up, it would be better now than later.

"Do you have a kid too that I suddenly do not know about?"

"Your boyfriend is still a sweet virgin, how can I have a kid? We can go make one though."

Lena stood up and fumed. She was being serious and Kris was taking this to light-hearted. "People can steal your sperm and then make a kid with it!"

Kris got up from his chair and hugged Lena tightly. "Don't be mad. I am sorry."

Lena closed her eyes and calm down a bit. She hugged him back. "Is she prettier than me?"

"Prettier....? HE is definitely uglier than you by a ton."

Lena looked up at Kris and distanced their hugs a bit. "A MAN?!" She buried her head back to Kris' chest and pretended to sob. "Ah!"

Kris quickly picked Lena up and she stopped her fake sobs. He carried her to the large open sofa at the back of the deck. He sat down first then hugged Lena with him.

"To be honest... I think it only lasted 8 hours." Kris recalled.

"Tell me how it went."

Kris put a hand on Lena's head and consoled her. "I married my best friend. It took a few years after my mother work up before she could steal me back from my grandfather's hold. It was a cold rainy night, that I had to choose between friendship or family."

Kris' eyes darkened as he looked into the night sky. "My grandfather was the only one I considered family then. Hugh and I... come from families that can never be friends."

Hugh... that name again from Kris.

"Hugh was the only person that made me experience being a child, well before you that is. I infiltrated the place he was staying at, killed his security team and pointed my gun at him, a person who was completely defenseless. Hugh laughed at me and told me to fight like a real man. I tossed my gun aside and we fought with fists.

Hugh was never much of a man who was brought up to fight and kill. I put my arm around his neck and chocked him breathless, no sympathy for our friendship. However, at that moment of his last breath, he said "Ada... Marry me." I don't know why, but I stopped chocking him. He coughed for a long time and I stared at his bloody face. He told us to get married. If we were to get married, then the two families would not kill each other.

At that moment, I looked at the child who showed me the first brightness in my dark world. The stupidity of our youth and friendship, we ran and got married. Faked our age but got a real marriage."

Lena looked up at him. "And I thought I was the only one who was stupid... Did you kiss the.. bride?"

Kris smiled and kissed Lena on the head. "No, you're not the only one who is stupid. We're both stupid. And no, I did not kiss the bride. Hugh and I drank all night and when I woke up, I almost killed him again for making me marry him. We got a divorce the next morning and Hugh covered our tracks."

"How did you even get married so late?"

"In Vegas." Kris answered.

"You flew to just get married?!"

"No silly. China has a few places like that too."

"I swear, if I ever meet Hugh, I will choke him to death myself. WHY couldn't he stay imaginary!" Lena fussed.

"Feel free to choke him."

"If you faked your age... then you technically were not real people. So your marriage was not real."

Kris held Lena tighter and ruffled his nose on her hair. "Lena... let's make our relationship entirely real."

Lena sat up and stared at Kris. It's confession time part 2. "You remember that time I was drunk... I lied to you. I remembered everything, even when.. I... kissed you.. a lot." She waited for Kris to respond.

He kissed her nose. "I know you lied."

"What?" Lena was shocked. How many more things does he know? "Well, you know that time you had your second relapse, well, I kissed you there too! I did not punch you."

He smiled and kissed her forehead. "I know that too."

"What?!"

"Keso brought over the video recording of the camera in the alley. The flight was flickering because it was using more electricity to record than lighting up the alleyway."

Lena blushed. He knew everything!!

"My turn." Kris held pulled Lena's head toward him and deeply kissed her lips. After a few seconds, he released her. "One time, you were sleeping and I french kissed you without your permission"

"When?!"

"Hmmm..." Kris tried to remember which day it was exactly. "The day Andy stayed at your place."

"That was a long time ago!"

"Yeah... I have liked you since then." He kissed her again and carried her soft tender body to her room. "You're the brightest star in my life."

Chapter end

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